A plan to start repatriating Rohingyas back to Myanmar is premature and the refugees are "terrified" about leaving Bangladesh where they sought refuge, dozens of aid agencies working in the region said yesterday.

The Roads and Highways Department is razing parts of Hazarikhil Wildlife Sanctuary in Chattogram to build a 12km road without assessing its environmental impact or obtaining permission from the environment ministry.

A sub-inspector of Bayezid Police Station allegedly raped a housewife threatening to implicate her husband in a yaba case.

Unidentified criminals shot dead a trader in the city's Pallabi area last night allegedly over extortion money.

Unidentified assailants shot dead a member of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS-MN Larma) at Longadu upazila in the early hours yesterday.

A 13-year-old Tripura girl was allegedly raped by two men in Chittagong's Mirsarai upazila on Thursday.

Eid-e-Miladunnabi, the day of birth and demise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM), will be observed in the country on November 21 as the moon of Rabiul Awal was sighted in Bangladesh sky yesterday.

A motorised wheelchair used by the late British physicist Stephen Hawking sold at auction on Thursday for almost 300,000 pounds ($391,740.00) while a dissertation raised nearly twice that at a sale to raise money for charity.

British Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday drew the fury of her crucial Northern Irish allies after seemingly accepting an EU-backed Brexit solution they fervently oppose.

China has been violating an agreement with the United States aimed at stopping cyber espionage through the hacking of government and corporate data, a senior US intelligence official said on Thursday.

A senior Austrian military officer is believed to have spied for Moscow for decades, Vienna said yesterday, adding to a list of recent Russian espionage cases and souring relations with arguably the country's closest ally in the EU.

Father of a schoolgirl accused 16 young men of gang-raping his daughter in a case filed nearly two weeks after the alleged incident in Tangail's Dhanbari upazila.

`Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday announced “Baishakhi Festival” allowance and five percent increment for teachers and employees of non-government educational institutions under monthly pay order (MPO).

The government has promoted 235 additional superintendents of police to superintendents of police.

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit yesterday claimed to have busted a militant gang whose members in the guise of NGO workers had long been spreading terror propaganda among Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar.

Syrian state media said yesterday the army has freed all remaining Druze women and children abducted in July from the southern province of Sweida by the Islamic State group.

At least 2.3 million people have fled Venezuela's economic and political crisis since 2015, the UN said yesterday, warning that host countries' capacity to shelter them was now "severely strained".

A painting of an animal in an Indonesian cave dates from at least 40,000 years ago, making it the world's oldest piece of figurative art, new research has shown.

Owing its name to the beautiful shade of golden-orange splashed on their feathered bodies, the Orange-headed Thrush, scientifically known as Zoothera Citrina, are commonly known in the country as Komola Dama, Komolaphuli, Komola Doyel, or Komola Bou.

Jatiya Oikyafront leaders have taken preparations to bring people from neighbouring districts today to their rally in Rajshahi, amid widespread arrests and the ongoing transport strike in Natore.